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Austrocypraea contusa

Gastropoda - Cypraeidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea (Luponia) contusa was named by McCoy (1877). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Balcombe Bay, which is in a Miocene marine siltstone in the Fyansford Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Cypraea (Austrocypraea).

It was recombined as Lyncina (Austrocypraea) contusa by Cossmann (1903); it was recombined as Austrocypraea contusa by Schilder (1941), Fehse (2003), Fehse (2013), Moretzsohn and Rosenberg (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1877Cypraea (Luponia) contusa McCoy p. 37 figs. pl. 44 f. 3-4
1903Lyncina (Austrocypraea) contusa Cossmann
1941Austrocypraea contusa Schilder p. 88
2003Austrocypraea contusa Fehse p. 51 figs. pl. 7 f. 1-2
2013Austrocypraea contusa Fehse pp. 116 - 117
2015Austrocypraea contusa Moretzsohn and Rosenberg p. 88

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyCypraeidaeRafinesque 1815
subfamilyLuriinaeSchilder 1832
tribeAustrocypraeiniIredale 1935
genusAustrocypraea()
speciescontusa()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Austrocypraea contusa McCoy 1877
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: omnivoref
Diet 2: grazerf
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 07:50:11
Modified: 2009-09-10 09:50:11
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oligocene to the top of the Middle Miocene or 27.30000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene27.3 - 15.98Australia (Victoria) Austrocypraea contusa (71238)
Middle Miocene15.98 - 11.63Australia (Victoria) Austrocypraea contusa (71352 72201) Cypraea contusa (type locality: 71242)